Example Sentences

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Jem had been voted Most Handsome in the senior class, a reasonable assessment: he had his mother’s calflike brown eyes, the heavy Finch eyebrows, and even features.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee

Behind him he heard Rosalie's voice, caressing, tormenting by turns; and, glancing around for her victim, beheld Grandcourt at heel in calflike adoration.

From The Danger Mark by Wenzell, A. B.

You should have seen her calflike ecstasy when I handed her something to read.

From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Cahan, Abraham